Douglas E. Cowan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reverend

Douglas E. Cowan
Born
Douglas Edward Cowan

(1958-08-14) 14 August 1958 (age 63)
Canada
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity
ChurchUnited Church of Canada
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis"Bearing False Witness"[1] (1999)
Doctoral advisorIrving Hexham
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplineSociology of religion
Institutions
Main interests
Websiteartsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~decowan Edit this at Wikidata

Douglas Edward Cowan (born 14 August 1958) is a Canadian academic in religious studies and the sociology of religion and currently holds a teaching position at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.[2] Prior to this appointment he was Assistant Professor of Sociology & Religious Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.[3]

Education and career[]

Cowan was born in Canada and received his undergraduate education at the University of Victoria where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature. He then proceeded to theological studies and received a Master of Divinity degree from . His doctoral work, which involved an examination of the Christian countercult movement through the prism of the sociology of knowledge and propaganda theory, was undertaken through the University of Calgary.[3]

While Cowan currently describes himself as a ,[citation needed] he was ordained to the Christian ministry in the United Church of Canada, and held pastoral positions during his doctoral studies.[citation needed] After graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1999 Cowan received a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology/CJC and the UMKC Center for Religious Studies.[3] During 2005 he relocated from the US to his current teaching post at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Bibliography[]

  • Cowan, Douglas E. (18 November 2004). Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415969116.
  • Cowan, Douglas E.; Bromley, David G. (24 September 2007). Cults and New Religions: A Brief History. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405161282.
  • Cowan, Douglas E. (30 November 2003). The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Praeger. ISBN 978-0275974497.
  • Cowan, Douglas E. (30 May 2003). Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Praeger. ISBN 978-0275974596.
  • Dawson, Lorne L.; Cowan, Douglas E., eds. (22 July 2004). Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415970228.
  • Haddon, Jeffrey K. (1 November 2000). Cowan, Douglas E. (ed.). Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises (1st ed.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: JAI. ISBN 978-0762305353.
  • Cowan, Douglas E. (1 October 2008). Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press. ISBN 978-1602580183.
  • Cowan, Douglas E. (2007). "Episode 712: South Park, Ridicule, and the Cultural Construction of Religious Rivalry". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 17. ISSN 1703-289X.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cowan, Douglas Edward (1999). 'Bearing False Witness': Propaganda, Reality-maintenance, and Christian Anticult Apologetics (PDF) (PhD thesis). Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary. ISBN 978-0-612-38462-0. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. ^ Cowan, Douglas E. "Staff Page". University of Waterloo. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Cowan, Douglas E. "curriculum vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012.

External links[]


Flag of CanadaBiography icon

This biography of a Canadian sociologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""